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Had A. been able to see only a few years into the future, he would have seen that 1,920 years of Christian morality, millions of dead men in the wake of a shattering war, and a whole forest of poetry rustling in homage to the modesty of Woman could not hold back the day when skirts and hair began to grow shorter and the young girls of Europe slipped off eons of taboos to emerge for a while naked, like peeled bananas.
— Jan 21, 2026 09:49PM
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Warwick
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There is a nameless mood abroad in the world today, a feeling in the blood of more than a few people, an expectation of worse things to come, a readiness to riot, a mistrust of everything one reveres.
— Jan 18, 2026 10:13PM
Warwick
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the role of present-day finance seemed to him similar to that of the Catholic Church: a great influence behind the scenes; unyielding yet yielding in its dealings with the ruling powers; and he sometimes saw himself functioning like a cardinal.
— Jan 16, 2026 09:34AM
Warwick
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Words leap like monkeys from tree to tree, but in that dark place where a man has his roots he is deprived of their kind mediation.
— Jan 14, 2026 10:19PM
Warwick
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civilization … is a frustrating condition, full of soap, radio frequencies, the arrogant sign language of mathematical and chemical formulas, economics, experimental research, and the inability of human beings to live together simply but on a high plane.
— Jan 14, 2026 02:47AM
